Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Can Hyper-Polarization be Reduced by Altering Electoral Rules?

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  Ned Foley, Richard Pildes and Larry Diamond have recently put out--with a bit more fanfare than the usual book on democratic theory or vot...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Democracy, Equality and Stupidity

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  For reasons that I can't quite put my finger on (maybe you can help?), during the last couple of months, I have been almost obsessed w...
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Thursday, November 7, 2024

A Million Bucks to Support Two Already Existing and Quite Safe Constitutional Provisions?

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  Among the large number of extremely weird occurrences that peppered the recently completed Presidential election in the U.S. was the creat...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

I Review One of the Late William Talbott's Books on Human Rights

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  The book I have most recently reviewed for 3:16 AM Magazine  is Which Rights Should be Universal , by William J. ("Bill") Talbot...
Monday, October 14, 2024

The Sacred Song of the MAGA

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For those who are interested, here is the real MAGA theme song. Anti-gay/trans, anti-welfare, xenophobic--even a bit anti-new tech. Sung by ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Louis Menand's New Yorker Piece on Two New Books About the U.S. Constitution

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  As a result of my frequent (and shameless) self-promotion (which practice, to be fair, was urged on me by my publisher), I suppose that mo...
Friday, September 13, 2024

What a 1927 Novel, Made into a 1932 Boris Karloff Horror Movie, Can Tell Us About Current U.S. Politics

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  Just this (from the character, Margaret regarding the tycoon, Sir William):  [S]he was troubled by a vision of factories and ships and cro...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Paine and Bentham on Democracy and "Natural Rights"

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  Not long ago, at a social media site I frequent, I was discussing (OK, pontificating on) the nature of “natural rights” and pondering whet...